souche

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French souche, from Old French çoche, from Vulgar Latin *tsucca, from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Cognate with Catalan and Spanish soca, Sicilian zuccu. More at English stock. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /suʃ/ === Noun === souche f (plural souches) stump (of a tree) (viral) strain (by extension, linguistics) root un mot de souche latine ― a word originating in Latin (by extension, genealogy) origin un Américain de souche ― someone of American origin (by extension, genetics) founder ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “souche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012